In his new Netflix series, Graham Hancock suggested that the Easter Island heads were built by his long-lost ancient civilization. But archaeologists have disagreed.

Island is home to roughly 1,000 Moai - the famous large stone heads - that are believed to have been carved 900 years ago.

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Easter Island has about 1,000 large stone heads, known as Moai, scattered throughout the island. Most historians agree that the Moai statues were carved by Polynesians approximately 900 years ago.

As of the latest census, taken in 2017, the population of Easter Island was 7,750. Most of its residents live in the main town of Hanga Roa. The island is famous for its enormous stone statues ...

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There is a remote volcanic island in the South Pacific where hundreds of mysterious stone ... how the heads were built and why their construction stopped. And the heads aren’t Easter Island ...

On average, they stand 13 feet high and weigh 14 tons, human heads-on-torsos ... "ahu" has two meanings in Easter Island culture. First, an ahu is the flat mound or stone pedestal upon which ...

There is no place in the world like Easter Island ... can be rare to find on the island," and another is access to the Manavai Spa, a replica of an ancient stone circle once used to hold water ...

It is quite obviously an axe head, but has undergone an interesting transformation of usage from a simple tool to a valuable currency due to the lack of any solid stone on these corral islands.

Stone wall at Ahu Vinapu, Easter Island. There is little data to support Heyerdahl. Dr. Jo Anne Van Tilburg, who is unconvinced by Heyerdahl's theory, notes that "all archaeological, linguistic ...

Travel resumed to Easter Island last week after COVID ... These are carved human figures with oversized heads, often resting on huge stone pedestals called ahus. These stone giants were made ...